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cord-254458-bbcef8xt	Ali, Farhana	Throat Wash Testing and COVID-19 Disease: Should We Put Our Money Where Our Mouth Is?	2020-04-30		.txt	text/plain	1107	76	59	The tragedy that is the US aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, in which 60 percent of the 600 sailors who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection were asymptomatic, further highlights the need for accurate laboratory diagnostics for COVID-19 disease [2] . make the case that testing of throat wash samples may be more sensitive than testing of NP swabs for COVID-19 disease. Interestingly, there is biologic plausibility that a sample collected via the oral cavity (such as a throat wash) may yield higher results than a NP swab test based on a study by Xu et al. Finally, the authors' detection of virus late in the patients' clinical course emphasizes the uncertainty faced by policy makers as they try to determine the optimal length of isolation for an individual recovering from COVID-19 disease. Saliva is more sensitive for SARS-CoV-2 detection in COVID-19 patients than nasopharyngeal swabs	./cache/cord-254458-bbcef8xt.txt	./txt/cord-254458-bbcef8xt.txt